CyberFight Festival 2022
Promotional poster featuring Kenoh, Shoko Nakajima, Go Shiozaki, Satoshi Kojima, and Daisuke Sasaki
Promotional poster featuring Kenoh, Shoko Nakajima, Go Shiozaki, Satoshi Kojima, and Daisuke Sasaki
PromotionCyberFight
Brand(s)DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT)
Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah)
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW)
Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro)
DateJune 12, 2022[1]
CitySaitama, Japan
VenueSaitama Super Arena
Attendance4,891[2]
Tagline(s)Come on, it's the festival.[a]
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CyberFight Festival 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight for its four brands, DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW), and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro). It took place on June 12, 2022, in Saitama, Japan, at the Saitama Super Arena and aired live on CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe where it featured English commentary.[1][3]

The card will feature fourteen matches, with the first three being part of the Starting Battle pre-show.

It will be the second CyberFight promoted event under this name.

Production

Background

On September 1, 2017, the Japanese digital advertising company CyberAgent acquired 100% of DDT Pro-Wrestling's (DDT) shares, including its sub-brands Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro). On January 28, 2020, following months of negotiation, LIDET Entertainment sold its shares of Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) to CyberAgent.[4] On July 27, it was announced that Noah and DDT, along with TJPW and GanPro, would merge in a new promotion called CyberFight, which would oversee and promote the four individual promotions.[5] The decision came after financial troubles faced by Noah and DDT due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On February 25, 2021, CyberFight president Sanshiro Takagi, CyberFight's executive vice-presidents Akito and Naomichi Marufuji, GanPro representative Ken Ohka, and TJPW representative Tetsuya Koda held a press conference, announcing that the four brands would be working together to promote an event on June 6 at the Saitama Super Arena.[6] The following year, on January 11, it was announced a new CyberFight Festival would be held at the Saitama Super Arena on June 12, 2022.[1]

Storylines

CyberFight Festival 2022 will feature professional wrestling matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[7]

On April 27, 2022, Kazuyuki Fujita had to vacate the GHC Heavyweight Championship after having tested positive for COVID-19.[8] On April 30, at Majestic 2022, Go Shiozaki defeated Kaito Kiyomiya for the vacant title, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Satoshi Kojima was revealed as Naomichi Marufuji's mystery partner in their tag team match against Yoshiki Inamura and Kinya Okada.[9] Hours after the event had concluded, it was announced that Kojima would challenge Shiozaki for the GHC Heavyweight title at CyberFight Festival.[10]

Results

No.Results[12][13]StipulationsTimes[12]
1PMuscle Sakai and Yukio Naya defeated Soma Takao and Kazuki Hirata by pinfallTag team match[11]9:02
2PNao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu, Moka Miyamoto, Arisu Endo and Kaya Toribami defeated Hyper Misao, Yuki Aino, Yuuri, Pom Harajuku and Haruna Neko by pinfallTen-woman tag team match[11]9:10
3PEruption (Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai and Hideki Okatani) defeated Ken Ohka, Yuna Manase and Mizuki Watase by technical knockoutSix-person tag team match[11]10:20
4Kinya Okada and Kai Fujimura defeated Toui Kojima and Yuya Koroku by submissionTag team match[11]11:45
512100000 (Miyu Yamashita and Maki Itoh) and Juria Nagano defeated Hikari Noa, Suzume and Yuki Arai by pinfallSix-woman tag team match[11]10:54
6Pheromones (Yuki "Sexy" Iino, Yumehito "Fantastic" Imanari, Danshoku "Dandy" Dino and Akito "Co-Chin" Nishigaki) defeated Shinya Aoki, Sanshiro Takagi, Yumiko Hotta and Kendo Kashin by submissionEight-person tag team match[11]13:21
7Rika Tatsumi defeated Mizuki, Yuki Kamifuku and Miu Watanabe by pinfallFour-way match for a Princess of Princess Championship match[11]9:37
8Sugiura-gun International (El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., René Duprée & Timothy Thatcher) and Michael Elgin and Simon Gotch defeated Sugiura-gun (Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita), Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba and Shuhei Taniguchi by pinfallTen-man tag team match[11]14:01
9Disaster Box (Harashima and Naomi Yoshimura) and CDK (Masahiro Takanashi and Chris Brookes) defeated The37Kamiina (Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Ueno and Mao) and Asuka by pinfallEight-person tag team match[11]14:29
10Rob Van Dam and Stinger (Yoshinari Ogawa and Hayata) defeated Kaito Kiyomiya, Daisuke Harada and Yo-Hey by pinfallSix-man tag team match[11]12:03
11Katsuhiko Nakajima, Atsushi Kotoge and Yoshiki Inamura defeated Burning (Tetsuya Endo and Jun Akiyama) and Kazusada Higuchi by referee stoppageSix-man tag team match[11]6:20
12Kenoh defeated Daisuke Sasaki by pinfallNo disqualification match[11]21:28
13Shoko Nakajima (c) defeated Yuka Sakazaki by pinfallSingles match for the Princess of Princess Championship[11]14:57
14Satoshi Kojima defeated Go Shiozaki (c) by pinfallSingles match for the GHC Heavyweight Championship[11]21:11
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
P – the match was broadcast on the pre-show

Notes

  1. ^ Japanese: さぁ、祭りだ。, Hepburn: Saa, matsuri da.

References

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  2. ^ "CyberFight Festival 2022". cagematch.net (in German). Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  3. ^ サイバーファイトグループの４団体合同興行「ＣＦフェスティバル」が６月１２日にさいたまＳＡで開催決定. Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). January 11, 2022. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  4. ^ Pratt, Emily (January 29, 2020). "Pro Wrestling NOAH's New Relationship With DDT Will Make It Easier To Watch Internationally". Uproxx. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  5. ^ Thomas, Jeremy (July 27, 2020). "Pro Wrestling NOAH and DDT to Merge Into New Company CyberFight". 411Mania. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  6. ^ DDTグループとノアが6･6さいたまSAで「CyberFight Festival 2021」を開催！3大タイトル戦や交流戦を実施予定！高木社長「人々に活力を与えるイベントにしたい」 (in Japanese). Proresu Today. February 27, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  7. ^ Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on January 15, 2006. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  8. ^ Pollock, John (April 27, 2022). "Go Shiozaki to wrestle for vacant GHC Heavyweight Championship". postwrestling.com. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  9. ^ 2022年04月30日（土）WRESTLE UNIVERSE presents MAJESTIC 2022. noah.co.jp (in Japanese). Pro Wrestling Noah. April 30, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
  10. ^ Pro Wrestling Noah [@noah_ghc] (April 30, 2022). GHCヘビー級選手権試合 潮崎豪（第38代王者）vs 小島聡（挑戦者） [GHC Heavyweight Championship Go Shiozaki (38th Champion) vs Satoshi Kojima (Challenger)] (Tweet) (in Japanese). Retrieved April 30, 2022 – via Twitter.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Pro Wrestling Noah. 2022年06月12日 （日） CyberFight Festival 2022｜サイバーファイトフェスティバル2022. noah.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved May 9, 2022.
  12. ^ a b DDT Pro-Wrestling. "CyberFight Festival 2022". ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Retrieved June 14, 2022.
  13. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (June 12, 2022). "CyberFight Festival 2022 Results (6/12): DDT, NOAH, TJPW, NJPW Talent In Action". fightful.com. Retrieved July 6, 2022.

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